Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for.

I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.